Nadia Garbellini

• University of Pavia

This chapter analyses the causes and consequences of the decline of the automotive industry in Italy. It focuses on the central negative role played by the ownership and management of Fiat-FCA and shows how the creation of Stellantis is further increasing the vulnerability of the Italian automotive sector in the context of the international restruc...

In the introduction to Structural Change and Economic Growth (1981), Luigi Pasinetti describes the birth of Marginalist economic theory as a reaction to Karl Marx’s political ideas — ‘the powers of old Europe [entering] into a holy alliance to exorcise [the] spectre’ of communism (Marx and Engels [1992]. Communist Manifesto. Oxford: Oxford Universi...

The purpose of this article is to discuss the combined effects of Industry 4.0 and lean production in the context of global supply chains on working conditions. Our thesis is that the changes of technique based on integrating Industry 4.0 technologies with lean production incur a substantial cost to labour, manifesting as increased work intensity....

The return of persistent inflation in OECD countries has been the most significant macroeconomic phenomenon in recent years. This article analyses different explanations for the current inflationary dynamics, from which various policy recommendations arise. Specifically, by using a Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) model, the article investigates...

A partire dal 2008 il tema delle crisi d'impresa è divenuto centrale nel dibattito politico e ac-cademico. L'analisi dei verbali dei tavoli istituiti presso il Ministero dello Sviluppo economico evidenzia che la maggior parte di esse è imputabile ad aspetti strutturali del sistema economico-produttivo italiano. Occorre quindi una politica industria...

La guerra russo-ucraina ha ulteriormente messo in discussione il modello di globalizzazione degli ultimi decenni, già messo in crisi dalla pandemia, esplicitando il processo di riorganizzazione delle catene transnazionali del valore e le dipendenze strategiche dell’Unione Europea in termini di materie prime e beni intermedi. Questo articolo fornisc...

This paper analyses the impact of the adoption of 4.0 technologies and of the Italian Government Plan on the Italian industrial structure and on work organisation and workers' conditions. The Italian industrial structure is strongly unbalanced at a territorial level, because it is concentrated in the Northern country, while the South of the country...

International trade is often presented as a game played by national states. If this is partially true, especially in the case of major countries, it is only a side of the coin. Changes in international trade patterns are therefore treated as the result of a change of technique process, taking place also due to international diffusion of technical k...

This article analyzes the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies in Italy. The article provides, in the first part, the essential information on the government plan on Industry 4.0 and the reactions of entrepreneurs and unions to this plan. In the second part, the research summarizes the results of a field research conducted by the "Claudio Sa...

Thomas Piketty's (2014) Capital in the XXI Century analyzes distributions of income and wealth in a set of developed countries and their determinants, from the nineteenth century to the present. The objective is a bold one, made even more so by the fact that Piketty pursues it not only from a theoretical, but also from an empirical point of view. T...

The view that “structural reforms” designed to deregulate the labour market would be able to increase employment and income is questioned by controversial empirical results, while the likelihood that these reforms accentuate inequalities seems to be supported by recent evidence. The wide literature on this issue, however, lacks studies on the speci...

In the aftermath of the Great Recession, a debate about the size of fiscal multipliers emerged. Whatever the estimation approach, fiscal multipliers assumed for projections are the result of extrapolations from time-series data. In this article, I take a different perspective by answering the following question: Is it really necessary to know the v...

The type of analysis carried out on the Sraffa system allows us to present a general version of the much-discussed problem of the “transformation of values into prices of production,” which Marx sets out in Volume III of Das Kapital. Moreover, the present contribution aims at showing how the introduction of “Keynesian” income distribution theory wi...

A clear and organic exposition of Pasinetti’s theoretical framework of Structural Change and Economic Growth is often complicated by misunderstandings and ambiguities concerning the basic categories and terminology. The pre-institutional character of the approach, the nature of its equilibrium paths and the significance of the ‘natural’ economic sy...

This paper studies the e�ects of domestic and foreign demand impulses in euro area economies following the Great Recession of 2008-09 and the Eurozone crisis of 2011-12. Using a global Input-Output framework we apply a set of metrics to assess spillover effects of international trade in intermediates triggered by the dynamics of �nal demand. Our �n...

Clusters and subsystems are two frequently used tools in inter-industry analysis, the former clarifying structure while the latter summarising circularity. Since industry blocks with crucial direct linkages will probably have strong indirect ties as well, localised intra-cluster feedback effects may play a prominent role in explaining total labour...

The present paper is a methodological contribution introducing a disaggregated physical productivity accounting framework in vertically (hyper-)integrated terms, establishing a direct correspondence between Supply–Use Tables and Pasinetti's (1973, 1988) theoretical magnitudes. As an empirical application, we computed productivity indicators and ind...

The aim of the present paper is that of exploiting the notions of vertically (hyper-)integrated sectors, as discussed in Pasinetti (1973) and Pasinetti (1988), and of natural system, as defined in Pasinetti (1981), in order to build up an analytical framework in which data from national accounts can be consistently inserted and hence used to analys...

Pasinetti’s (1981) Structural Change and Economic Growth provides a complete and far reaching theoretical framework for the study of structural change, and therefore of economic development, rooted in in the Classical-Sraffian tradition. Some attempts have been made, both in the ’80s — for instance Siniscalco (1982) and Momigliano & Siniscalco (198...

There exists a vast literature on the measurement of productivity changes, reflecting a wide range of theoretical approaches to economic theory. Following the Classical viewpoint as exposed by Pasinetti (1981), the present paper considers changes in productivity as changes in the physical productivity of labour, not involving distributive variables...

La presente tesi ha due scopi paralleli. In primo luogo, intende essere una rilettura concettuale attraverso di `Structural Change and Economic Growth' (Pasinetti 1981), alla luce del chiarimento di alcune questioni sia metodologiche che concettuali, e della contestualizzazione dell'opera all'interno dell'intero percorso intellettuale che, dal 1962...